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SEOANE, JOSÈ-ANTONIO. Health Justice & Rights. Notizie di Politeia. 2019, vol. 35, no. 133, pp 30-42, ISSN 1128-2401.
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[Abstract]: Health is a universal need and good that deserves protection, but there is
no agreement about its concept and meaning, nor about the nature and scope of its
protection. The aim of this paper is to justify why the protection of health should be
considered a public duty of justice and to make a case for a rights-based theory of
health care. In order to fulfil that aim the paper answers five questions: 1) what is to be
protected, providing a concept of health; 2) who is benefit by this protection, that is,
human being, person; 3) where is health protection to be applied, i.e., our political and
legal context; 4) why this proposal, by means of a fourfold philosophical foundation;
and 5) how is to be implemented health justice through rights.